Tailored Product Development

Many lubricant manufacturers claim to offer custom products. What this typically means is that they’re willing to modify a standard product’s viscosity or maybe even the container’s label.  At Cadillac Oil, however, we have a vastly different definition of what it means to offer a custom product, or as we prefer to say, “tailored” product.

The process of designing your product begins with an audit of your process and environment. We compile data on the ambient conditions, equipment, processing speeds, storage and shipping conditions, facility emission restrictions and much more. We then develop a complete understanding of the product’s performance requirements and assimilate all of this data until a starting formulation is chosen. This formulation is then run through a series of simulated processing and performance tests within our laboratory and modified as many times as necessary until the desired attributes are achieved … without wasting any of your valuable line time. Only once this work is complete do we initiate a confirmation trial. At the end of this process, an entirely new product has been developed and a process has been optimized.